Overall manifest functions: To reduce the taking of game from depleted forests.
Overall latent functions: Reduced food poisoning from under cooked meat. Overalllatent dysfunction’s: Crime, unemployment, the mayors unfortunate death.
In a land far far away and long ago there was an abundance on gameanimals until hunters came and slaughtered animal after animal to sell to nearby restaurants for profit. Time passed and many became rich but the onceabundant forests were now some how empty and game-less. Something had to bedone!
That’s when mayor, John Enviro Mental the II of New Brunswick decided hewould ban the listing of game animals on the menus at near by restaurants tostop the pilfering of the land. He chose the menu ban because he still wantedfor there to be hunting but not hunting for profit. He brought his proposalbefore the city council where it met resistance, but being the accomplishpolitician he was, he knew a bribe would get them into a passing the law kindamood.
Some of the Manifest functions John saw was the preservation of gamethat would be brought about if he could stop hunting for profit by taking thegame off the menus at the near by restaurants. However latent functions occurredwith the passing of the law, the amount of people who suffered food poisoningfrom the meat cooked at the restaurants went down.
However latent dysfunction’s occurred, somewhere ville, their neighbor tothe east, who’s economy was propelled by their firearms and ammunition industrysuddenly had no customers, and promptly went bankrupt. A wave of unemploymentand bitterness swept through the town, and the people became angry at what thefoolish mayor of New Brunswick had done to their city!Back in New Brunswick things weren’t so good either, people who once madetheir living by hunting, were now living in squalor. They were forced to turn toa life of crime and mug people on the street to get money so they could eat !
With the recent crime wave that struck the city the mayor was losingpopularity and the town began to turn against him. People in desperation for asolution began to get crazy ideas like burning down city hall or hanging themayor. Well when the people of Somewhere ville moved to New Brunswick lookingfor a job they also brought their ideas of revolution.
3 Months after the bill was passed the mayors house was burned in themiddle of the night. He came out of his burning house to a angry mob. The angrymob promptly hung him from the tree in his front yard.
